Julius Caesar’s exciting plot, brilliant rhetoric, and searching characterisation have made it one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers. Introducing this thoroughly reconsidered edition, Arthur Humphreys provides a fresh look at the play’s date and its place in the Shakespeare canon and examines Shakespeare’s transmutation of history into drama. He investigates the play’s ethical and moral concerns in a section on Roman values and analyses its fortunes in performance, from its immediately successful first staging to modern productions for cinema, television, and stage.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages: 253
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780199536122
ISBN 10: 0199536120